E-Mail¶

RDMO needs to send E-Mails to its users. The connection to the SMPT server is configured several settings in your config/settings/local.py:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'localhost'
EMAIL_PORT = '25'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = ''
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''
EMAIL_USE_TLS = False
EMAIL_USE_SSL = False

DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = ''

Here, EMAIL_HOST is the URL or IP of the SMTP server, EMAIL_PORT is the port it is listening on (usually 25, 465, or 587), and EMAIL_HOST_USER and EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD are credentials if the SMTP server needs authentication.

For a STARTTLS connection (usually on port 587) EMAIL_USE_TLS needs to be set to True, while EMAIL_USE_SSL needs to be set to True for an implicit TLS/SSL connection (usually on port 465).

DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL sets the FROM field for the emails send to the users.

For a development/testing setup a simple e-mail backend, which only displays the mail on the terminal can be used:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_FROM = 'info@example.com'

This is also the default backend, if no email settings are added to config/settings/local.py.